AI must not become 'another facet of ongoing arms race', Pakistan tells UNSC - World - DAWN.COM

Pakistan has told the UN Security Council that AI must not become "another facet of ongoing arms race", according to a report published by DAWN.COM. The statement was made by the country's deputy premier at a Security Council session on artificial intelligence. At that session, he said AI should not become a "monopoly of a few actors". He also warned that AI could be a risk to humanity if it is managed poorly.

The same report records remarks from three participants from the AI industry. Hugging Face's Delangue said the world needs open-source AI more than ever in order to defend itself. Anthropic's CEO pledged to slow down where needed, and Altman said that "this moment calls for extreme care". Each of the three remarks concerns the pace or the openness of AI development rather than any specific technical proposal, and the report attaches no further detail to any of them.

The session placed a national government's position alongside those of companies that build AI systems. Pakistan's contribution focused on two risks: concentration of AI capability in the hands of a small number of actors, and the treatment of AI as a component of an ongoing arms race. The industry remarks addressed openness and pace, with Delangue arguing for open-source development, Anthropic's CEO committing to slow down where needed, and Altman calling for extreme care in the present moment.